The Republican journal., 1887-12-08
NARY JAMES TRAVELS.
SHE AND DlCKEY LAND IN EON-
ME ENGLAND ONCE MORE.
she Rcjoices That She Is Again Where
the People SPEAK the Englisl, Language.
a Story About Budding Eriton's
Ignorance.

the People SPEAK the En.lisl, Language
a Story About Il Budding Eriton's
Ignorance.
Special Correspondence
LONDON, England, Nov 30-Wc landed in
England several days ago and the first thing
Dickcy did when she tackled the major
domo of The hotel ut NEW Haven
where we wcrc going to stay all night.
was to shy ~ him in the most in
noccnt manner, "Do You speak English."
The man looked like Lc didn't know whether
to be insuitcd OF to call the police for a crazy
woman, and Dickcv began to blush, apollo
gizc and explain. You see, for several
months we had been putting that question
to hotel people, car drivers, .suitlcs, railway
men, Shop keepers and scattering, and only
four hours before We had been at it in
France SO what clsc Was to l2 expected.
After Nc had been on shore an hour or two
and had tried our language on nearly every
body we met, turned to Dic!icy,
"Wcl. my dear" saici /, ''how docs il feel
t" bc in Gods cou!tr.f once llorp.'
81 gh,' shc said, with !" shlus Of hcr shout
dcls, this isn't Gods country exactly. for
the .tar5 AMI stripes doesn't grow On thaaoil
but its Gods language, and / feel nearer
heaven than at any time Since | sut foot on
foreign dirt"
Dickcy is take it, about right, too, and
imagine there are very few English Speaking
people who would set up an opposite opinion
To one speaking only English. there is some
thing peculiarly affecting i'll living and lnuv-
ing among those who know and use Il totally
different tongue. used to go along the streets
of continental towns seeing all the familiar
Sights incidental to such localties-men,
EolDn,, and thl1rc,, borco- ,,r,;o,,, 4r,,,,
ways, houses, shop windows, churches, dogs
baby wagons and all the other ad uncts and
properties of living, just as they were at
Homeland l could scarcely realize that none
but me could see what | saw. OF course they
saw the same outlines, the same figures that
were presented tony eyes, but the names that
had made them familiar to lie all my life,
had given them place i'll my vocabulary of
beng, were as nothing to 1hcm, and if |
should have calletla horse hippopotalnu5 and
q baby a baboon il would have made no
difference i'll their conception or comprchc,i-
sion Of the object named They saw a world
totally different from mine, and vet the same,
with the same memories. the same asSocia-
lions, the same feelings, but with names
which gave to their surroundings a char
&ctcr which was as strange to me as if
| had just landed from some far
of planet. 1t may be true that
a rose by any other numn would smell
as sweet, but have my doubts and i'll what
ever language my nose might happen to fall
upon q rose, | am sure that when my olf;tr-
tory nerves had sienalnl my brain that a
fragrance had touched them, and my brain
i'll turn had telcyraphc The fact to my artic-
ulations, the message would come forth 1t
is a rose At railway stations, too, as we
whirled in and out with a moments stay, |
saw meetings and paltiIgs, smiles and tears
ana thought of love, of homo, Of friends,
OF JOY. of sorrow, but to those saw there
was none OF these, and tie words that to he
expressed much We're meaningless to
them. Until one has visited I; country Of an
unknown tongue it is not possible to unGe;'-
stand these peculiar claotioil.; and the utter
Isolation of feeling and sentiment which re-
suits. Thai man knew what it was when. after
weeks of CXlrcssionlc;s existence he heard q
rooster crow. and burst forth in spontaneous
gratitude, Thank God, somebody speaks IL
language | can understand
In view OF these facts and many other adj
Vanta%es not here enumerated my advice to
those contemplating a trip to Europe is to
learn French and German, at least in so far
as will enable them to ret an occasional idea
of what is going on around them
Wei, I'm in London again, and it does one
a power Of good 10 be here and to feel that
our America is an English ofIshoot rather
than that Of any other people. Every nation
has its points of excellence and its features of
superiority, but taking them ALL .by and
large, the English are the first people Of the
world. | haven't time or space to give an
temizcd bill of my belief in my own state
lncnt, but | will respectfully refer the
gentle reader" to the facts Of yesterday and
to-day, and let him contradict me if he dare
London is just as big and just as ugly as it
was when first landed, and while am be
coming accustomed to its u2lincss | can't re-
slst the overwhelming power of its bigncss,
and day after day / wander about wonder
ing if London has a limit, and if there is i'll
It's 'myond Il Green field or patch Of wood
land to rest the eye and the brain after the
Wcafincas of its crow,ling thousands, and it,
nlrky, heavy atmosphere, hcdged in by
dingy buildings and narrow, crooked streets.
Before coming up hero we did little trip
ping around through the south of England,
touching at Brighton, Southampton, the Isle
Of Wight, Pcnzancc, Lands End and so on
that is to say, not $50 on" for there isn't
any $50 on i'll England when once you have
reached Lands End, which is the western
most extremity of the island.
i'tlSHl'ii, StlIi'H", rs VIC lllCSt SC;lSIue
resort in the world 1t fronts the sea mostly,
and its front is as if one lad taken the better
half Of broadway, New York, and after
frightening it up somewhat, adding a sea
wall and Il park, a promenade and Il drive,
had set it down by the shore The beach is
not good, being pebbly, and the water is cold,
but that long line of splendid front facing
the south is something to be seen nowhere else.
Going out of Brighton we met an Amcri-
can dude, strongly Anglomaniac, with eye
glass and other exquisite appurtcnances, who
had been paying Dickcy, much against her
will, moro or less attention on the continent.
We had taken first class tickets, and as We
stopped at our carriage he looked up !. some
surprise
"Ah," said he questioningly, ''lrst class!'
Certainly said Dickcy cooly.
"Ah, Americans and fools, they sa*. travel
first class said he with a sickly smile, peer
ing into the compartment through his glasses.
Yes said she, ''and they say, too, that
Englishmcn and fools wear single harreled
eyeglasses"
1t wasn't very polite possibly, but desperate